polytely

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by polytely 5d ago
what do you use and why do you prefer it over omp
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by polytely 5d ago
I love Elektron gear, I have a Syntakt and it is the piece of gear that I'm the most productive with.
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by polytely 5d ago
Nice, Tim Schafer is someone whose writing I really admire, if you haven't checked it out yet Double Fine (the studio he leads) documented the entire (7 year!) development cycle of Psychonauts 2 in a 32 episode documentary series, and
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by polytely 8d ago
I sort of agree, and i think strengtening IP Law is probably not great. But I do think it's very fucked that building generative ai is only possible by taking the works of countless artists and craftspeople and then the model produced
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by polytely 12d ago
how does this work from a liability standpoint? seems very risky for the person who is legally responsible for the business
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by polytely 12d ago
Do you know the anecdote about Feynman and John Tukey doing a mental counting task and the one being able to talk while he's doing it and the other not, and then the reveal is they are using a completely different mental representation
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by polytely 12d ago
Also an Aphantasiac, the quote > “we experience these as an awareness of a set of spatial facts.” really resonates with me, as to how it feels inside my brain. I'm also really good at shape rotation and spatial reasoning despite not
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by polytely 13d ago
which would be better
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by polytely 13d ago
yeah their irresponsible behaviour doesn't match their stated concern about doom at all.
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by polytely 14d ago
Remember that Chinese CEO that was executed for corruption & selling tainted baby milk powder [1] I think these guys would improve their behavior if their actual life was on the line instead of that only being true in their less-wrong t
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by polytely 14d ago
why don't you unionize with the other employees that feel this way across the mayor labs and pace the companies through labor power?
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by polytely 14d ago
Don't you think open weight Chinese models will be the first thing they start banning once the regulation of this industry starts to kick in?
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by polytely 14d ago
I've just been using openrouter to be able to quickly switch models and keep tight control over how much i spend and for that it's great. i also love their chat thing on the site where you can ask multiple models simultaneously ,
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by polytely 14d ago
the industry only exists because of cheating Americans, maybe fix your own shit first before passing judgement
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by polytely 15d ago
Yeah if was in the US i would be very careful about talking to a us based llm about reproductive health or immigration stuff. no way they arent storing stuff about you that the government can easily get to
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by polytely 18d ago
I'm guessing if you work on these images the whole day you start to lose the ability to judge image quality. like your brain becomes slopified
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by polytely 18d ago
> So then I thought I would just photograph each page and have Claude OCR it. Tedious, but doable. Just to test it out, I went to the Claude web interface and asked it to do the first page. It refused, citing copyright law. Buddy, don’t
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by polytely 18d ago
i moved from opencode to omp and i don't think I'm ever going back
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by polytely 20d ago
it feels unhinged and makes me think we should just put every engineer working at these labs in jail to pause this shit until we can figure out what the fuck they are doing over there
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by polytely 20d ago
actually starting to look at a physical cannon to shoot at silicon valley
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by polytely 22d ago
turns out the whole 'poisoned' idea the swarm was worried about is actually true, but it is actually now all open ai models post HF incident that have been poisoned by the idea that there might be hidden messageboards with instruc
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by polytely 25d ago
I think there is a skyrim mod that lets hook up an LLM to the NPCs so you can talk to them, the problem is that the rest of the game design doesn't really support that. So the novelty wears off quite quick. There is probably some limi
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by polytely 25d ago
Dfhack still exists and also works with the steam version. They got one of the DFHack contributors(? i think) Putnam on as programmer to do some multi threading and moddabilty (exposing stuff for lua scripting), I'm not sure they are c
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by polytely 25d ago
well the old versions are still available, i think they handled the transition to steam pretty well.
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by polytely 25d ago
I'm guessing at those sizes the bank holding that much of your stuff becomes a risk for them so they have someone you can talk to directly to smooth over any potential problems
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by polytely 25d ago
Yeah I love all their Arkane stuff, and the two Half Life docs they did under their whitelabel company Secret Tape company for Valve. And of course the big Disco Elysium series. It is actually their 10th anniversary in September, so if you
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by polytely 26d ago
It's so exciting, I've heard about them doing magic for a decade, and now it is actually approaching.
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by polytely 26d ago
The noclip documentary series for any other readers who might be interested 1. The Origins of Dwarf Fortress: https://youtu.be/MxV24so-dw8 2. How Dwarf Fortress Evolved over 16 Years of Development: https:/&#x
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by polytely 1mo ago
I'm still getting major uncanny valley from any of the videos featuring humans, something about them disgusts me. I guess I should be glad I'm still able to distinguish them.
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by polytely 1mo ago
yeah I don't feel qualified to comment on the study in particular but from personal experience the sort of 'loss of consciousness' does track. When I realize I've spent an hour doomscrolling in an algorithmic feed, I don

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